March 31, 2016

When all is said and done, Civilizations do not fall because of the barbarians at the gates. Nor does a great city fall from the death wish of bored and morally bankrupt stewards presumably sworn to its defense. Civilizations fall only because each citizen of the city comes to accept that nothing can be done to rally and rebuild broken walls; that ground lost may never be recovered; and that greatness lived in our grandparents but not our grandchildren. Yes, our betters tell us these things daily. But that doesn't mean we have to believe it.

Around 3200 years ago two large armies fought a pitched battle in Northern Germany near the Baltic Sea, possibly one of the largest ancient battles every fought. The armies were made up of full-time warriors who had traveled long distances to the battle site and used the best technology available at the time. Yet there is no record of it and it appears in no history book.

As predicted almost fifteen years ago in the prescient blockbuster, Juwanna Mann. The WNBA will soon be comprised entirely of transgendered males. The same for the LPGA. Women's professional bowling remains the same. It's bad news for every single female athlete currently drawing a paycheck. It's great news for the WNBA counting on every single guy who said he'd watch the sport when there was dunking.

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Okay Japanese M1 copy only existed in totals of 150-250 total.
Wow.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 31, 2016 06:36 PM (kWhCN)

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Nice video on camouflage. Of course, the greatest ever was Odysseus, in the halls with the suitors, the suitors who respected none but themselves.

Posted by: Wise Old Owl at March 31, 2016 06:36 PM (J3UIw)

30As predicted almost fifteen years ago in the prescient blockbuster,
Juwanna Mann. The WNBA will soon be comprised entirely of transgendered
males. The same for the LPGA. Women's professional bowling remains the
same. It's bad news for every single female athlete currently drawing a
paycheck. It's great news for the WNBA counting on every single guy who
said he'd watch the sport when there was dunking.

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I'm all for the nationalizing of the private and public school endowments.
I mean, is it fair for Harvard to have $36B when it has an enrollment of just 21,000 students while Old Dominion University has just $215M for an enrollment of over 24,000?
Can't wait to see the Ivy Leaguers heads explode over that.

I was thinking about how long it's been since it went off the air, which is about 20 years IIRC, maybe a bit shorter? It might have ended in 1996 or 1997. But yeah, I think 1987 or 1988 was the first season.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at March 31, 2016 06:46 PM (4/i9Y)

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Yes that would be great irony, that during the Burning Times every copy of such movies as Prometheus and The Green Zone are forever lost.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2016 06:48 PM (YJ26V)

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65 Muslima slashed in the face in NYC and called a terrorist
Here's yer backlash
Posted by: ThunderB at March 31, 2016 11:46 PM (zOTsN
Calling either fake or random ass nutball.

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67 Yes that would be great irony, that during the Burning Times every copy of such movies as Prometheus and The Green Zone are forever lost.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2016 11:48 PM (YJ26V)
Ace's review of Prometheus is etched on a gold disk and is stored in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault so at least that will survive.

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Considering the look of agony on Al's face every time Peg wanted to have sex, how did they have two kids?

KAsich's dad rang twice?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2016 06:51 PM (YJ26V)

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67 Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2016 11:48 PM (YJ26V)
I must not want the burning times.....
I must not weant the burning times.....
I must not want the burning times....

Posted by: sven10077 at March 31, 2016 06:51 PM (g8Hfr)

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A typographical error is a simple mistake. It makes for good jokes.

Grammar and syntax are what thought is made of. It takes a special sort of person (I won't say "jerk," although the author managed to work it in there -- let me just say fucked-up loser and let it go at that) to have such a low regard for those he's communicating with that he forces them to decrypt his meaning. Not unlike getting stoned and expressing everything as "you know, man," it works fine as long as everyone in your communicating group has exactly the same mental content, but that's a continually decreasing denominator.

Yes, "disagreeable." That must be a bad thing. Because we want to agree with everyone, don't we? If you require others to expend extra effort to figure out what you're trying to say, why would you expect them to trust your skills in anything else? Sloppy language, sloppy thinking, and if you can't engineer a thought you won't be working on our cars or buildings. Now call me a Nazi.

Posted by: [/i][/b]Stringer Davis at March 31, 2016 06:51 PM (xq1UY)

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Those 3 polar explorers have given me magnum aggressions with a side order of white privilege. They should have their names & photos removed from the annals of history

Not watched Erased. Between Konosuba, Gundam, and PSO2:The Anime plus writing, reading, and rewriting along with work; just not gotten there.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2016 06:53 PM (YJ26V)

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Whittle's a great guy, but it's a bit worse than being told by our "betters" that "nothing can be done". The bulk of those in a position to do something are, in fact, not doing anything. And there doing more and more nothing all the time.
From the physics department chairmen who simply couldn't imagine his climate "science" colleagues being corrupt power-mad frauds, to the Pacific Command CINC who believes "climate change" is his top priority, to his colleagues in the brass who kowtow to every single absurd social engineering ukaz flying out of the lunatic WH, to the corporate CEOs/boards pre-capitulating to ANY SJW extortion now matter how ridiculous, or scamming rent-seeking opportunities out of them, to academics cravenly submitting to these retarded Red Guards with better haircuts now passing for "students" - the "betters" are doing a lot more than talking.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 31, 2016 06:54 PM (QDnY+)

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"Those 3 polar explorers have given me magnum aggressions with a side order of white privilege. They should have their names & photos removed from the annals of history"
Muslo-Africans were there surely before us............yet left no indication.
The West's fault. Clearly.

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83 Posted by: Puddleglum at March 31, 2016 11:51 PM (NGd+i)
Back in '93 I think I worked for Kroger's Caterer on a Lesbian Psycho Golf Assoc event in Beavercreek Ohio....
There was an absolutely stunning Swedish chick who was a foot taller than most of the hobbit women playing and about +30 on the "10 beauty scale" than she was...
They *all* were bitchy and catty towards her the entire three days.
It was the most spurned lover hate glare fest you'd ever see.
You have to figure... "damn she is straight"

Posted by: sven10077 at March 31, 2016 06:54 PM (g8Hfr)

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I watched "Transylvania Twist." Still a funny movie, and a nice in-joke treat for horror movie fans.

Angus Scrim was really funny. RIP.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 31, 2016 06:55 PM (AroJD)

96Yes, "disagreeable." That must be a bad thing.
Because we want to agree with everyone, don't we? If you require others
to expend extra effort to figure out what you're trying to say, why
would you expect them to trust your skills in anything else? Sloppy
language, sloppy thinking, and if you can't engineer a thought you won't
be working on our cars or buildings. Now call me a Nazi.Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 31, 2016 11:51 PM (xq1UY)

Far from it. I used to review a paper a day, on average, in academia. My principle: the reader takes precedence over the author(s). On more than one occasion, for non-native speakers of English, I rewrote a paper in its entirety in my review.

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93 Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 31, 2016 11:54 PM (voOPb)
Sven is not the burning time America wants....
he *is* the burning time America needs.

Posted by: sven10077 at March 31, 2016 06:55 PM (g8Hfr)

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WB is spending a lot of money for reshoots on Suicide Squad. Every joke in the movie is in the trailer. Right now they are comparing BvS to Deadpool. FYI Hollywood, make the trailer, and then make the movie the trailer promises to be.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 31, 2016 06:56 PM (VdICR)

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Someone mentioned my GMU School of Law being renamed.
Makes me very very happy.
Can't wait until the SJW hysteria.

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94: The LPGA found out that Betty Friedan types are not marketable since then.

Posted by: Puddleglum at March 31, 2016 06:56 PM (NGd+i)

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"And Al Bundy is by far the only relatable/likeable character on Modern Family."
Never watched "Modern Family", Man Card firmly in hand. But those who foresake Al Bundy at the alter of NO'MAAM all die in shame.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 31, 2016 06:57 PM (kWhCN)

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>>Back in '93 I think I worked for Kroger's Caterer on a Lesbian Psycho Golf Assoc event in Beavercreek Ohio....
Hah. Beaver Creek.
I remember when the LPGA gals would roll into Tucson 2-3 times a year.

Posted by: garrett at March 31, 2016 06:57 PM (hTE1V)

105Sloppy language, sloppy thinking, and if you can't engineer a thought you won't be working on our cars or buildings.
Have you met mechanics and tradesmen before?

Posted by: derit at March 31, 2016 06:57 PM (OC+TJ)

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Col. Sanders had a couple of places, one was less than a mile from here, and is still there:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/hoycy6w
Also, Mrs. H is also a Kentucky Colonel.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2016 06:57 PM (RrDm2)

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So, in other news, today was trash pickup day at Casa de Cthulhu -- and with all the trash cans out of the way. it became evident that the random stain on the wall of my neighbor's house was because someone had crapped on it. [The little pile of paper at the bottom made it definitive.]
So, evidently it's a thing while you're walking down the street to dash up between two random houses, hike down your trousers next to their trash cans, and take an explosive runny shit on their wall, wipe your ass with some McDonald's napkins you carry with you for the purpose, and drop the napkins in the runoff. I'm so happy to still be living in this fucked-up state.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2016 06:57 PM (EzgxV)

10886 And Al Bundy is by far the only relatable/likeable character on Modern Family.Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 31, 2016 11:53 PM (hlMPp)

A series I've assiduously avoided, as I'd gathered from Mrs. Guevara that I wouldn't care for it.

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23 I thought the French cave paintings were later proved to be a fraud
Posted by: ThunderB at March 31, 2016 11:35 PM (zOTsN)
Lascaux? No, its real.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at March 31, 2016 06:59 PM (k53nK)

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Never watched "Modern Family", Man Card firmly in hand. But those who foresake Al Bundy at the alter of NO'MAAM all die in shame.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 31, 2016 11:57 PM (kWhCN)
It has a happy well adjusted gay couple so you'll be forced to eventually.
I'm prepping for the camps so I can get some extra Hope and Gruel.

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92 Shackleton is a globe fucker
Posted by: ThunderB at March 31, 2016 11:54 PM (zOTsN)
George RR Martin translates "Dick Cheney" into Dothraki as The Stallion Who Mounts the World.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 31, 2016 06:59 PM (VdICR)

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65 Muslima slashed in the face in NYC and called a terrorist
Here's yer backlash
Posted by: ThunderB at March 31, 2016 11:46 PM (zOTsN)
Nah, that's just some vindictiveness. Backlash will be when the extermination is limited only by logistics.

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I see way more typos than I point out. But they are more unforgivable now than before there was Spellcheck.
The worst are typos in published books. How many editors had a chance to catch it and blew it? That typo then gets printed on thousands of copies.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2016 07:00 PM (EZebt)

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104 Posted by: garrett at March 31, 2016 11:57 PM (hTE1V)
Yup...it just isn't the same these days...
My house in Indiana is across the street from a PGA type course the LPGA went through my 2d year....
I was not inspired to go take a look.

Posted by: sven10077 at March 31, 2016 07:00 PM (g8Hfr)

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A series I've assiduously avoided, as I'd gathered from Mrs. Guevara that I wouldn't care for it.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 31, 2016 11:57 PM (oKE6c)
I liked it when it started. Granted, with most tv I have it just going in the background. Past couple of seasons are horrendous.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 31, 2016 07:01 PM (hlMPp)

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if you can't engineer a thought you won't be working on our cars or buildings.
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Heh. As I mentioned last night, I pulled the driver's side airbag from the truck, to work on the horn contacts. Really, I would be much less apprehensive handling a grenade than that damned airbag.

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119 SF
I was a mean dad when my girls were younger: disabled spellcheck and thesaurus on their computers (MS Word). They had ample access to both in hardcopy.
They resented it for quite a while.
That changed

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Yikes cthulhu. Last place I saw that was a Metro station in Moscow (Lenin Hills, not sure what it's called now), loonnnng ago.
Thanks for sharing, but I hope nobody here feels an obligation to now share similar stories.
Advanced math and pizza make better thread topics.

Which ended up saving the whole universe. Which is impressive, but still doesn't beat scoring 4 touchdowns for Polk High in the city championship.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at March 31, 2016 07:06 PM (4/i9Y)

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136 Posted by: rhomboid at April 01, 2016 12:04 AM (QDnY+)
speaking of Oddly Placed Fecal Emanations...
no no just kidding.
In Franklin there is a micro chain that is not the worst called "Chicago's"
and as I mentioned the eponymous "Richard's" downtown has a genuine old coal kiln they use for wood firing their pizza.

Posted by: sven10077 at March 31, 2016 07:07 PM (g8Hfr)

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127 Al Bundy is by far the only relatable/likeable character on Modern Family.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 31, 2016 11:53 PM (hlMPp)
Why that's racist, sexist & homophobic
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Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 01, 2016 12:02 AM (voOPb
Hey! I Ike the Columbian's tits and ass and legs!
That has to count for something.
Vergara. Anyone see the commercial with her walking her son down the red carpet. Man that kid has to have some thick skin.

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Nah, that's just some vindictiveness. Backlash will be when the extermination is limited only by logistics.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2016 11:59 PM (EzgxV)

Speaking of logistics. Ever wonder what goes in those containers going back to China to be reloaded with cheap, I mean affordable, imports?

Adjusts tinfoil hat...

It isn't chemtrails.

All that crap your local municipality makes you separate into the various recycle bins. All that crap you are required by law, slave labor, to pick through and put into bins according to reuse value...

Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 31, 2016 07:08 PM (T78UI)

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Anna, how is the PSO2 anime? I never got into PSO or PSU, but I love the original series.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at March 31, 2016 07:08 PM (4/i9Y)

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~ 14 miles south of Indy Metro.
Posted by: sven
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Ok. been by there many times, but never dropped in.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2016 07:08 PM (RrDm2)

147Study Says People Who Continully Continually Point Out Typoes Typos Are In Fact 'Jerks' 'Awesome'

There were some typos, but I fixed them for you.

Your welcome.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 31, 2016 07:08 PM (R+30W)

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124 *searches for a silver lining to Cthulhu's story*
At least there was no body at the bottom of the stain.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 01, 2016 12:02 AM (YJ26V)
I'm reasonably sure I have it on security-cam video -- and absolutely sure I saw the person enter the area and leave -- but the authorities would never do anything about it, so I have better things to do than review that cam.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2016 07:09 PM (EzgxV)

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144 Posted by: Burnt Toast at April 01, 2016 12:08 AM (T78UI)
Yup...including get this....
waste electronics.
I'd lay money there's some Chinaman who is praying they get restricted tech that way some day and has to check those shipments.

151All that crap your local municipality makes you
separate into the various recycle bins. All that crap you are required
by law, slave labor, to pick through and put into bins according to
reuse value...

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but the authorities would never do anything about it, so I have better things to do than review that cam.

Posted by: cthulhu at April 01, 2016 12:09 AM (EzgxV)

And that's the part that's sick and wrong, that you have this kind of thing going on and nobody will do anything about it.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at March 31, 2016 07:10 PM (HalrA)

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Thank you Maetenlock for finding that Bronze age battle article.
I've often wondered about the rest of the planet that didn't make it into the history books. There are some good story ideas for SciFi authors.

Posted by: Justly Fletcher at March 31, 2016 07:10 PM (D4xdv)

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You can't stop a disgusting idiot from being an idiot, but you can punish them so they don't do it again and it sends a message to other would-be idiots.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at March 31, 2016 07:10 PM (HalrA)

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146 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 01, 2016 12:08 AM (RrDm2)
The house is off exit 95 down the road aways from the truck stops.
If I ever resume occupancy we'll go have a bite somewhere.

Posted by: sven10077 at March 31, 2016 07:10 PM (g8Hfr)

156Civilizations fall only because each citizen of the city comes to accept that nothing can be done to rally and rebuild broken walls; that ground lost may never be recovered; and that greatness lived in our grandparents but not our grandchildren. Yes, our betters tell us these things daily. But that doesn't mean we have to believe it.

-- Bill Whittle

Unusually wrong for Whittle.

If our Betters employ the forces of government to curb decent, that's not an implicit agreement by each and every citizen.

The phrase 'tyranny of the few' seems apt.

Posted by: weft cut-loop[/i][/b] at March 31, 2016 07:10 PM (A/3fN)

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Hey everybody. Ah geez. Typing on phone.
Will try to keep this short. I'm basically stuck in Laughlin with my nephew, niece and my more-crazy sister I've told you about. We were dropped off by family and thought we could spend a few days extra here, then rent a car to take home to SoCal. Turns out we can't get a car, my and my sister's credit is too terrible.
Staying in hotels but money is running out. Meanwhile my sister is reaching her estranged husband/my bro-in-law to come out for us... But is being weird about it.
More to come...

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 31, 2016 07:11 PM (0nG6y)

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153 Posted by: Justly Fletcher at April 01, 2016 12:10 AM (D4xdv)
That period would be about right for the cataclysmic battles between the Aesir and the Vanir...
ah to have time travel and test that hypothesis by studying their religious practices.

Posted by: sven10077 at March 31, 2016 07:12 PM (g8Hfr)

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"Tuesday in San Francisco"
Posted by: sven10077 at April 01, 2016 12:02 AM (g8Hfr))
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Umm, no. I believe that toilet paper was mentioned. Too bourgeois for this town.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2016 07:12 PM (EZebt)

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141:Anyone see the commercial with her walking her son down the red carpet. Man that kid has to have some thick skin.
That kid probably sleeps with several women at a time.

Posted by: Puddleglum at March 31, 2016 07:12 PM (NGd+i)

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Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2016 11:57 PM (EzgxV)
I thought the old disgusting shower enclosure someone threw away at the entrance to our ranch was disgusting.
I'm sorry to say you win.

The whole world's full of all kinds of lost history. Might even be some under your feet. Until recorded history, people were dependent on oral histories, which meant that if your tribe's lore keepers were put to the sword by your enemies, a large portion of your history was simply lost.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at March 31, 2016 07:13 PM (HalrA)

164I'm reasonably sure I have it on security-cam video -- and absolutely
sure I saw the person enter the area and leave -- but the authorities
would never do anything about it, so I have better things to do than
review that cam.

Should be simple enough for them to get a frame grab with the guy's face and stroll through the nearest EPA office to find him.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 31, 2016 07:13 PM (YJmuy)

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And that's the part that's sick and wrong, that you have this kind of thing going on and nobody will do anything about it.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 01, 2016 12:10 AM (HalrA)

If you lived in Jupiter

Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 31, 2016 07:13 PM (T78UI)

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159 Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 01, 2016 12:12 AM (EZebt)
Berkeley then....
but ONLY on Tuesdays.

Posted by: sven10077 at March 31, 2016 07:14 PM (g8Hfr)

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Posted by: speedster1 at April 01, 2016 12:03 AM (vUcdz)
Does that mean you were too mean to let them use calculators too?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2016 07:14 PM (EZebt)

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154 You can't stop a disgusting idiot from being an idiot, but you can punish them so they don't do it again and it sends a message to other would-be idiots.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 01, 2016 12:10 AM (HalrA)
Like I said, I've got a motion-sensitive camera that monitors the entryway to that area and 80% of the area -- I'm pretty sure that I've got video of the entry, if not the act.....but the local constabulary is far more interested in doing security for 49ers games at double time than rousting the riffraff.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2016 07:15 PM (EzgxV)

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is anyone open to help me figure out a problem? I made plans to put my sons ashes where he would want them. My daughter is throwing a hissy fit because I invited my ex's family who tried to help as much as they could. She is angry since she cannot be there but doesn't understand that I don't want to be alone. To give my daughter credit. she gave birth to my granddaughter days after her dad passed and barely got to day goodbye to her brother.
The family has been no help her dad's ashes are not dispersed as he wished but I don't control them.
The risk of alienating my daughter and my beloved frandchildren is too much to ask .... ideas welcome and sorry for the depressed tone.

Posted by: FCF at March 31, 2016 07:15 PM (kejii)

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PSO2 anime is all right. It has its moments. Starts with kinda nothing guy Itsuki who is suddenly tapped by the high school council president, Rina, to become the vice-president and to play PSO2. She wants to prove to the school admin that gaming won't impact grades or such. So Itsuki, being newb, creates a character that looks like him and uses his real name. But then things pick up as he does adventure and level up while learning about ARKS, Darkers, NPCs, quests, and such. Itsuki's grades suffer because he becomes addicted. Rina chews him out. And there is a foreign transfer student whom everyone starts to call Ai-Ai-chan. Itsuki gets broadsided by finding out Orga-Cat, the cat-girl, is actually a guy and he meets others in RL whom he has adventured with and they become a group of companions who help each other out.

And Itsuki discovers that PSO is reality. Darkers do exist and they are looking for someone who can become the avatar for their leader Dark Falz.

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157 Hey everybody. Ah geez. Typing on phone.
Will try to keep this short. I'm basically stuck in Laughlin with my nephew, niece and my more-crazy sister I've told you about. We were dropped off by family and thought we could spend a few days extra here, then rent a car to take home to SoCal. Turns out we can't get a car, my and my sister's credit is too terrible.
Staying in hotels but money is running out. Meanwhile my sister is reaching her estranged husband/my bro-in-law to come out for us... But is being weird about it.
More to come...
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 01, 2016 12:11 AM (0nG6y)
Greyhound.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2016 07:16 PM (EzgxV)

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Where I live there is "zero lot line", which is a way of saying that your house abuts your neighbors on either side. Kind of makes a big rectangle for the whole block.
The benefits are that no one can sneak around your easement and take a sheiss.

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is anyone open to help me figure out a problem? I made plans to put my
sons ashes where he would want them. My daughter is throwing a hissy fit
because I invited my ex's family who tried to help as much as they
could. She is angry since she cannot be there but doesn't understand
that I don't want to be alone. To give my daughter credit. she gave
birth to my granddaughter days after her dad passed and barely got to
day goodbye to her brother.
The family has been no help her dad's ashes are not dispersed as he wished but I don't control them.
The risk of alienating my daughter and my beloved frandchildren is
too much to ask .... ideas welcome and sorry for the depressed tone.

Posted by: FCF at April 01, 2016 12:15 AM (kejii)

I would suggest rescheduling for when your daughter can be there. I suspect your son would not mind the delay if he loved his sister.

Was your ex estranged from your son? That might be the cause of your daughter's pique. She might feel that if they couldn't make an effort to be in your son's life before his death, they shouldn't get the right to be around when people who actually loved him get to say goodbye.

Posted by: redbanzai at March 31, 2016 07:21 PM (NPofj)

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So the Model 3 is pretty enough and Elon says he has 115k reservations. Probably 140k by now.
Anyone reserved their baby Tesla for this time in 2018?

Posted by: JEM at March 31, 2016 07:21 PM (qt8uo)

185Shooter is James Brown, and he is from Illinois
Posted by: ThunderB
The hardest working man in shoot business.

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180 Posted by: FCF at April 01, 2016 12:15 AM (kejii)
What does she want you to do? Do it alone?
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 01, 2016 12:20 AM (egOGm)
Yes , but the extended family cafed alot and tried to help him, jobs, church etc. it has turned into such a clusterfuck that no I am looking at losing my only other child and my two grandkids

Posted by: FCF at March 31, 2016 07:26 PM (kejii)

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Eh, doesn't sound like my cup of tea Anna. Way too many 'the RPG is real!!!' shows proliferating right now. PS2 and PS4 have such good stories, though - it sounds like PSO doesn't quite have the same heft.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at March 31, 2016 07:26 PM (4/i9Y)

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Caitian? M'Ress would have been on that quicker than an anchovy only pizza.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2016 07:27 PM (YJ26V)

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189 SF
Back at ya
What's funny is that I'm verbal, wife unit is math/engineering, so pretty sure they got the math/sciencey stuff from her. I did the Word thing because I didn't want them dependent on tech for communication skills.
Seems to have paid off.

Visited, or crashed on? With all the large prey available at the time this place would have made a prime vacation destination for a large carnivore.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 31, 2016 07:27 PM (YJmuy)

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Multiple counts attempts murder, fleeing police, driving without a license, aggravated discharge of a firearm, aggravated battery with a firearm
And that's no everything

Posted by: ThunderB at March 31, 2016 07:27 PM (zOTsN)

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200 Or was it the Pak? Yeah I think it was the Pak because maps of Kzin and Earth are found on the Ringworld. Chmee was shocked to find out Kzinti female are still pretty smart there.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 01, 2016 12:26 AM (YJ26V)
I should reread that one. It has been decades. I wonder if it has aged well.

Posted by: eman at March 31, 2016 07:28 PM (MQEz6)

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Something odd about that Virginia shooting. Can't quite put my finger on it.
I quit riding the bus back in the nineties, and stopped going near the airport about that same time. If I can't drive, I ain't goin', and I am not riding with someone else neither.

Posted by: Justly Fletcher at March 31, 2016 07:28 PM (D4xdv)

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The risk of alienating my daughter and my beloved
frandchildren is too much to ask .... ideas welcome and sorry for the
depressed tone.

Posted by: FCF at April 01, 2016 12:15 AM (kejii)

Tell the truth, and tell it simply and plainly. Trying to be too artful about it, or too clever will only cause more pain. Tell her why it needs to be done, tell her that you're not snubbing her and that there's nobody else.

And perhaps offer to go with her to the place where the ashes are dispersed later, when she is available, to lay a wreath or place a memorial marker so she can say goodbye.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at March 31, 2016 07:28 PM (HalrA)

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207 Posted by: ThunderB at April 01, 2016 12:27 AM (zOTsN)
There a link or is this data dump live?
Essentially it may be the newsies throwing in the towel on narrative and trying to make it go away.

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ThunderB, so a hardened career bad guy, sort of a typical - if tragic - dirtbag shoots cop story?
Any other angles? The perp's pigmentation persuasion stated in first paragraph, or in 22nd paragraph (you see this will answer my question without stating it)?

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"is anyone open to help me figure out a problem? I made plans to put my
sons ashes where he would want them. My daughter is throwing a hissy fit
because I invited my ex's family who tried to help as much as they
could."

Sympathies.

Some problems can't be solved.

I myself would prioritize maintaining amicable relations with living family over what a decedent would have wished for. Even if I had pledged to faithfully carry out the decedent's request.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 31, 2016 07:32 PM (noWW6)

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The hairless ratlike tails. A cat with a rat tail just ain't right.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at April 01, 2016 12:31 AM (YJmuy)

parasol ears

Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 31, 2016 07:32 PM (T78UI)

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Broseidon, no its not the best out there. But I am curious to see where it goes.

Frankly back in 1992 Studio Tron released Compiler about the 2D world wanting to conquer the 3D world so it sent two programs out to do that - Compiler and Assembler. And of course, each of them could power up by inserting in the back of their necks special data discs.

Yes Kikuchi was massively influenced by the original Tron movie for this series though it does turn comedic because the programs are young women who find out they like the 3D world.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2016 07:33 PM (YJ26V)

224weft, we're in sort of furious agreement on the Whittle pull quote (see mine above yours), with different aspects emphasized

Posted by: rhomboid

I'm sure we are.

And to revise, it may be moot to argue 'oo fucked 'oo when it comes to the polity or the neo-gentry.

I can't remember which political scientist/historian put it in manner of ;

the artists imagine the ridiculous, the academics publish it as possible, the media makes it credible, the politicians propose the plans, and the voters volunteer their futures.

Sure, the voters are to blame. But who decided that the culture wasn't worth fighting for? The academy? The media?

Posted by: weft cut-loop[/i][/b] at March 31, 2016 07:33 PM (A/3fN)

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Cato I tried that, her grudge is against extended family, who really tried to help my son, I thought maybe we could split his ashes and she can do what she wants...(shrug) best idea I have come up with. I guarantee she wont get her dads

Posted by: FCF at March 31, 2016 07:34 PM (kejii)

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No pictures. Don't know race. Pretty bad criminal record. From Illinois. Must have been incarcerated at some point. Not seeing mental health issues
Running guns from VA to IL? Cause that's a thing

Posted by: ThunderB at March 31, 2016 07:36 PM (zOTsN)

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Posted by: FCF at April 01, 20
If she will keep your grandchildren from you, I would do as she asked. Or as redbanzi said, do it when she can do it with you if at all possible.
Family can be difficult.

Posted by: CaliGirl at March 31, 2016 07:36 PM (egOGm)

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Well if you think Niven's description of the Kzinti is odd, could always watch the Star Trek animated episode "The Slaver Weapon."

Heck since they've rebooted, bring on the Kzinti cruisers from Star Fleet Battles to go toe to toe with the Federation.

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199 Posted by: cthulhu at April 01, 2016 12:15 AM (EzgxV)
You can always post the video and try to shame the vile creature.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 01, 2016 12:26 AM (egOGm)
That's actually an intriguing take on it. I doubt this guy's social circle monitors random youtube videos of people crapping on suburban walls, however....

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2016 07:37 PM (EzgxV)

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Cbs James Brown has a lengthy criminal back to at least 2001, including three counts of attempted murder?,

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>>>FCF, may you soon find peace and solace.
my mom made a huge deal about taking my pop's ashes to sicily. she booked this fancy tauck tour and off she went.
with every bit, except for one small scoop.
he may have loved sicily but i know for a fact he'd have been happy on his own back hill. and so it occured.

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Wow. Eve shit in an ONT. Cool!
So yes. Shit Status is Real. I'm resubbing (Subcap has been unsubbed for a month, Cap account has been down 3ish).
There's a SOTG (State of the Goonian which for all intents and purposes is a State of the Coalition) tomorrow at Noon. Everyone was told to be there ready to go (Well, at least the EU crew. I'll try and listen but I have to get ready for work at 1ish).
Yea. So the Next big war is here and for the first time we are really defending. Usually we Start shit, fair badly, regroup and then grind our enemies down. This time we just got facefucked and then betrayed.
Oh well. Grist for the mill.

Posted by: Zakn at March 31, 2016 07:47 PM (d2pTe)

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African-American with an aunt Edith...
and LONG history of rage at cops.
so of course we need Ogabe to stoke those fires some more.

Posted by: sven10077 at March 31, 2016 07:48 PM (g8Hfr)

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Well known to Aurora police, spent time in prison, raised by his aunt. She kicked him out last Dec.
This isn't the gun story they were hoping for

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Posted by: FCF a
Tread lightly,
When my father died, my brother lost his mind. He didn't want me to go to the funeral because My husband told him to stop acting like a pu**y.
He told my mother to stop us from attending, if we went he would never speak to her again. He hasn't.
He caused a scene at the funeral. He was screaming at me like a crazy person.
He's always had issues, but a death in the family is very stressful.
Don't let this happen to you.

Posted by: CaliGirl at March 31, 2016 07:49 PM (egOGm)

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"Cato I tried that, her grudge is against extended family, who really
tried to help my son, I thought maybe we could split his ashes and she
can do what she wants...(shrug) best idea I have come up with. I
guarantee she wont get her dads"

I have been charged with scattering ashes of departed family members before (with everyone in friendly accordance, no conflicts, no bad blood).

As I did so, I was startled to realize that "cremains" are essentially indistinguishable from what is found at the bottom of any hearth or firepit or wood barbecue.

If I had to keep everybody happy in terms of ash distribution, I might end up stretching the ashes a bit, with discreet additions. Some here, some there.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 31, 2016 07:50 PM (noWW6)

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Court records show James Brown III had been charged with murder, intent to kill, aggravated battery with a firearm, failure to obey police, resisting a corrections officer, aggravated battery of a pregnant woman, aggravated battery of an unborn child, numerous drug charges, intimidation, domestic battery, felony possession of a weapon, among many driving charges.

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"He had a lot of anger about the police in the past," she said. "He pretty much thought he wanted to be infamous . . . in terms of having a showdown. He always praised those people who got into shootouts with police."

Posted by: sven10077 at March 31, 2016 07:52 PM (g8Hfr)

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A fucking animal. Bet we paid for the whole family. Wonder if he was an Obama early release recipient

Posted by: ThunderB at March 31, 2016 07:52 PM (zOTsN)

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So yeah...this is a definite BLM poster boy...
Al Sharpton warned he fears the streets after Obama leaves today....

Posted by: sven10077 at March 31, 2016 07:53 PM (g8Hfr)

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Evening...or morning, I guess...roonz and roonettez! Mrs Hades has been off all week so she went to see her mother. It's crazy, really, just how much that Mrs Hades shaped hole bothered me, but I really really missed her. I've never missed anyone like I miss her when she's not there.

I know, I'm pathetic.

But she's back, and all is right with my world again. How's things with all of you?

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256 Posted by: ThunderB at April 01, 2016 12:52 AM (zOTsN)
I don't think so.
His Aunt Edith all kidding aside seems like a decent woman who finally had to let him go.
You just can't save some folk.

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I assume nothing. I'm not even sure I believe she kicked him out. She could be covering her own ass

Posted by: ThunderB at March 31, 2016 07:55 PM (zOTsN)

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"James Brown has a lengthy criminal back to at least 2001, including three counts of attempted murder"

The musical James Brown, the "Hardest Working Man In Show Business" James Brown, at one point in later life, had been reduced to where his one-man record label was in a strip mall office building with a single shared bathroom.

There was some sort of goofy cosmic-muffin human-potential seminar being held in one of the connected offices, and the Godfather Of Soul took offense to the seminar participants using HIS restroom, and marched in to the middle of the proceedings with a loaded .357 revolver, and took them all hostage for a couple of hours while he ranted about the injustice and indignity of it all.

I have no use for that sort of silly nonsense, but wouldn't it have been worth the price of admission to spend years afterwards relating the story of once having been held at gunpoint by *the* James Brown?

Posted by: torquewrench at March 31, 2016 07:57 PM (noWW6)

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261 Posted by: ThunderB at April 01, 2016 12:55 AM (zOTsN)
I strive not to assume anything.
I read her interview, she says he has been gone since December.
Competent investigators will backtrace his movements and expenditures as much as possible.
If she aided and abetted across 3 state lines somehow they'll make a case.
This fella had a "born to lose" brand on his forehead figuratively if not literally.

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torquewrench, that might have been the best suggestion yet ...thank you

Posted by: FCF at March 31, 2016 07:59 PM (kejii)

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Nationalizing edowments received by private colleges?
Watch that money dry up quick.
Posted by: Darth Randall
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It may take Harvard a while - $32 Billion
I made a simple proposal last night. Let's just cut off all grants to any school/student at schools with a Foundation/Endowment worth more than $100k per enrolled student. They simply do not need it. Harvard has ~4500 students, that's over $7,111,111 per student[/i that they are sitting on.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2016 08:01 PM (9mTYi)

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Maet,
Don't know if you are reading this, but thanks so much for the article from Science magazine about the big Bronze Age battle. I love history and wanted to be an archeologist when I was a kid (funny thing, though, I have never seen an Indiana Jones movie!) I am actually considering doing a vacation trip someday to be an archeology intern at Montpelier, Madison's home in VA.
And to the horde ....
Thank you for being normal people. I have taken up a bad habit, which is wading into arguments with liberal women online (I am a woman, biologically, anyway, but i'm starting to question my gender identity after reading their ridiculous arguments... without starting a flame war here, I've read enough "hands off my body" and "what about the millions of incest victims" strawman arguments to last me a lifetime). I do what I can to change their minds, then despair for the future of our country, then come back here and realize that we aren't nearly as f*cked as I think we are.

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Goodnight everyone,
FCF, I hope everything works out for you. With no drama. I think you've had enough for a lifetime.

Posted by: CaliGirl at March 31, 2016 08:05 PM (egOGm)

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267 Posted by: the other coyote at April 01, 2016 01:01 AM (3VNQZ)
It helps to remember liberals believe earnestly in numbers like "every ten seconds a family loses their home in America...."
every ten seconds
10*6=s 6 a minute
6*60 =s 60 an hour
60*24=s 1440 a day
1440*365=s 525,600 a year....
525,600*4=s 2,102,400 a Presidential Term
or
4,204,800 in Obamaerica

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245 Wow. Eve shit in an ONT. Cool!
So yes. Shit Status is Real. I'm resubbing (Subcap has been unsubbed for a month, Cap account has been down 3ish).
There's a SOTG (State of the Goonian which for all intents and purposes is a State of the Coalition) tomorrow at Noon. Everyone was told to be there ready to go (Well, at least the EU crew. I'll try and listen but I have to get ready for work at 1ish).
Yea. So the Next big war is here and for the first time we are really defending. Usually we Start shit, fair badly, regroup and then grind our enemies down. This time we just got facefucked and then betrayed.
Oh well. Grist for the mill.
Posted by: Zakn at April 01, 2016 12:47 AM (d2pTe)
Wasn't Eve the game that VileRat was on?

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2016 08:09 PM (EzgxV)

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>>Repeating 1933's gains is a horror story, not a fairy tale.
'Happy Days are here again!'

Posted by: garrett at March 31, 2016 08:10 PM (hTE1V)

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oh wow fun with math....
time to go to bed the number is even more ridiculous...
6*60 is 360 an hour....
360*24=s 8640 a day
8640*365=s 3,153,600 a year...
so yeah they allege over Obama's term 8% of Americans lost their house.

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qdpsteve,
Hubby got stuck in Houston after truck was stolen with his wallet in it. Job site superintendent didn't have a credit card, so couldn't rent hubby a car. Local U-Haul place would accept a debit card, so hubby drove a U-Haul home. I tried getting him a plane ticket, but he couldn't get through security at the airport w/o drivers' license, which was in wallet inside stolen truck.

I made a simple proposal last night. Let's just cut off all grants to any school/student at schools with a Foundation/Endowment worth more than $100k per enrolled student. They simply do not need it. Harvard has ~4500 students, that's over $7,111,111 per student

---

Well, I was refering to people making donations. I imagine most donors want their money to go to a specific college/university and will stop donating once they know that it will go elsewhere.

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Maet, Thanks for all the good content. Love that photo of the polar explorers. And I didn't find that Marine despite getting eyestrain trying.
On behalf of my former fellow editors and proof readers, those study people who think accuracy in language doesn't matter can go fuck themselves. It's one thing for a language to evolve. It's another matter when poor usage shows ignorance or, worse, deliberate disregard.
Mini-rant off.

All of the government's economic numbers are so heavily manipulated that they're basically worthless, we've been in a Depression since the Housing Bubble broke. There is no such thing as a recession that lasts more than 6 months, and recessions do not end until you recover to pre-recession levels. This has not happened.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at March 31, 2016 08:17 PM (J+mig)

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283 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 01, 2016 01:16 AM (9mTYi)
I corrected it Herr Hammer...
I was using CBO debt math for a second and undervaluing the hourly by a factor.
Yup Liberals think every US homeowner lost his home in the last 20 years.

Posted by: sven10077 at March 31, 2016 08:18 PM (g8Hfr)

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279 Yes Cooth. Sean used to run Corps Diplos for Goons/CFC.
Posted by: Zakn at April 01, 2016 01:12 AM (d2pTe)
His loss hit me especially hard because of the hole-in-my-head for remembering people names. I couldn't just forget his nic.....and the fact that game would have kept his situational awareness alerted (evidenced also by his recorded comments) meant he got the full "benefit" of watching the trap close on him.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2016 08:20 PM (EzgxV)

288Yup Liberals think every US homeowner lost his home in the last 20 years.

Posted by: sven10077

No, they're just anticipating it.

Posted by: weft cut-loop[/i][/b] at March 31, 2016 08:20 PM (A/3fN)

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289 Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 01, 2016 01:20 AM (A/3fN)
every group needs wank material...
that would be the Feel the Bern types'

Posted by: sven10077 at March 31, 2016 08:22 PM (g8Hfr)

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286 Repeating 1933's gains is a horror story, not a fairy tale.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 01, 2016 01:08 AM (EzgxV)
All of the government's economic numbers are so heavily manipulated that they're basically worthless, we've been in a Depression since the Housing Bubble broke. There is no such thing as a recession that lasts more than 6 months, and recessions do not end until you recover to pre-recession levels. This has not happened.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 01, 2016 01:17 AM (J+mig)
I don't see where we have a disagreement.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2016 08:23 PM (EzgxV)

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Yup Liberals think every US homeowner lost his home in the last 20 years.
Posted by: sven
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Well, if it were every 10 seconds, it would take a lot less time than that. Oddly, I can't find a number for the number of homeowners.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2016 08:24 PM (9mTYi)

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I'm all for the nationalizing of the private and public school endowments.
>>>I mean, is it fair for Harvard to have $36B when it has an enrollment of just 21,000 students while Old Dominion University has just $215M for an enrollment of over 24,000?
Can't wait to see the Ivy Leaguers heads explode over that.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper<<<
^^THIS^^ And not just in education. We are coming to the point where all roads intersect.
The resulting collision will be of epic scale. SMOD will only be able to look upon it with awe.

Posted by: AmeriDan at March 31, 2016 08:26 PM (cq3QL)

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292 Yup Liberals think every US homeowner lost his home in the last 20 years.
Posted by: sven
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Well, if it were every 10 seconds, it would take a lot less time than that. Oddly, I can't find a number for the number of homeowners.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 01, 2016 01:24 AM (9mTYi)
What if every homeowner who lost a home bought another at a short sale?

And yeah regarding the ancient rule, sometimes I think these archeologists need to be re-introduced to "brutish and short" first hand. All this civility has been a fairly recent thing, up until just a few centuries (maybe as far as millennium by now) it's been all about capturing or allocating scarce resources for your clan. It's only been with the development of modern technology (again, only within the past couple of thousand years) that Man has been able to move away from basic survival issues to create "first world problems".

My guess, the battle was all about repelling foreign invaders. Viking type invaders, perhaps. Might make an interesting story for all of you storytellers out there looking for something to write about.

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coyote ..... the Horde is "normal" people? Hmmm. Might want to re-calibrate the Normal Meter. Oh - and you seem to have walked through the invisible shields ..... no [] - yet - in place of your comments re certain prez candidates ..... you do know all such talk is banned in the ONT
Cato - the Horde is "sane"? You might want to go in with coyote on that Normal Meter re-calibration, get a bulk discount!

Posted by: rhomboid at March 31, 2016 08:27 PM (QDnY+)

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I do believe Mr Brown's information can be found on the State of Illinois Department of Corrections inmate search. Can't link to his picture, but I do believe this is his parole sheet.
https://www.idoc.state.il.us/subsections/search/inms_print.asp?idoc=R54683
Inmate number R54683

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What if every homeowner who lost a home bought another at a short sale?
Posted by: cthulhu
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Right. We get into a circumstance akin to divorce figures.
I'm speaking only hypothetically. But if one has 'lost' their house, it implies foreclosure, which would (or should) make buying another in the short-term somewhat difficult.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2016 08:30 PM (9mTYi)

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Cato - the Horde is "sane"? You might want to go in with coyote on that Normal Meter re-calibration, get a bulk discount!

Posted by: rhomboid at April 01, 2016 01:27 AM (QDnY+)

Compared to the screaming SJW hordes and Jihad deniers, yes, the Horde is extremely sane by comparison.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at March 31, 2016 08:31 PM (J+mig)

303All of the government's economic numbers are so
heavily manipulated that they're basically worthless, we've been in a
Depression since the Housing Bubble broke. There is no such thing as a
recession that lasts more than 6 months, and recessions do not end until
you recover to pre-recession levels. This has not happened.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 01, 2016 01:17 AM (J+mig)

Surely you jest. I have been assured by Top. Men. that the Obamaconemy has saved us from the worst monetary peril since the Great Depression.

And I have uncovered a BerniBot in my local model train club. I refuse to engage as in my 1:160 world I am the benevolent dictator and all my tiny people love me because I keep the trains running on time. There isn't any scenery but the trains run (I'm mostly in the club to learn scenery).

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Ooh, accidental phrase coinage. Jihad Deniers. People who want to live in a fantasyworld that we are not under attack from a militant cult grown to enormity. I'm not copyrighting it, take it, use it, and go mad.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at March 31, 2016 08:32 PM (J+mig)

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at March 31, 2016 08:33 PM (J+mig)

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>>>Surely you jest. I have been assured by Top. Men.
that the Obamaconemy has saved us from the worst monetary peril since
the Great Depression.Posted by: GGE Hades of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 01, 2016 01:31 AM (vbvxt)<<<

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Cato, was just joshing.
Well, except for myself, and sven, of course. Neither of us would probably shout too loud about how sane we are.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 31, 2016 08:35 PM (QDnY+)

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Compared to the screaming SJW hordes and Jihad deniers, yes, the Horde is extremely sane by comparison.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 01, 2016 01:31 AM (J+mig)

Seriously. In NC lately we've been dealing with the fallout of the state legislature (and the governor by signing the bill) telling Charlotte "No, not every pervert and deviant can use any bathroom they want, the People have spoken and there are children out there who may be victims of your PC bullshit."

Look, I have no problems if you want to identify as an assexual DragonKin as long as you aren't taking money out of my wallet or layers off of my dermis, but all joking aside...I wonder if this isn't more poking the bear to see if he will roar more than anything else.

Problem with poking the bear...the sumbitch will eat you sooner or later, and the bastich moves quick.

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295 (I am a woman, biologically, anyway
Ahem...we have this rule in these here parts...
And yeah regarding the ancient rule, sometimes I think these archeologists need to be re-introduced to "brutish and short" first hand. All this civility has been a fairly recent thing, up until just a few centuries (maybe as far as millennium by now) it's been all about capturing or allocating scarce resources for your clan. It's only been with the development of modern technology (again, only within the past couple of thousand years) that Man has been able to move away from basic survival issues to create "first world problems".
My guess, the battle was all about repelling foreign invaders. Viking type invaders, perhaps. Might make an interesting story for all of you storytellers out there looking for something to write about.
Posted by: GGE Hades of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 01, 2016 01:27 AM (vbvxt)
From what I gather from mentions, there was a 600-year-old causeway/bridge there -- and, given the times, dollars'll get you donuts that it was a toll bridge.
Toll bridges have a nasty habit of turning from pleasant convenience to existential threat quite rapidly (as in, the northern bridge to a town when attacked from the south).

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2016 08:37 PM (EzgxV)

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I'd probably go batty if there wasn't a Sanity Asylum like this place around.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 01, 2016 01:13 AM (J+mig)
Agreed, but you have to admit it's been getting a little shaky lately.

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"I tried getting him a plane ticket, but he couldn't get through
security at the airport w/o drivers' license, which was in wallet inside
stolen truck."

What fun!

There is a backup system of sorts. You can board a plane with a U.S. passport. Or you can also now get a "passport card" for a few additional bucks. Either as part of a first-time passport application, or piggybacking on top of an existing issued passport.

It has the same form factor as a credit card or driver's license. You can't get through most international checkpoints with a passport card, but it will suffice at any domestic Stateside airport.

So for someone who travels a lot, having one of those stashed separately from one's wallet or purse can be a huge help in such tough situations.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 31, 2016 08:37 PM (noWW6)

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GGE, am I recalling correctly that CBD has an article forthcoming in Model Railroading, or something? Did you see that?
It was during a day thread and I remember being sort of taken aback, as that topic had never appeared in CBD's extensive comments or co-blogging about food and now other things.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 31, 2016 08:37 PM (QDnY+)

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Agreed, but you have to admit it's been getting a little shaky lately.

Posted by: rickl at April 01, 2016 01:37 AM (sdi6R)

Just a little chaos. Partly due to the election, partly due to the growth. If we've survived over 7 years of Obama, we can survive this.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at March 31, 2016 08:39 PM (J+mig)

I suspect you are correct. I further suspect the pointy head academia nuts who postulated such a position need to have their brain housing groups re-aligned to the local reality.

From what I gather from mentions, there was a
600-year-old causeway/bridge there -- and, given the times, dollars'll
get you donuts that it was a toll bridge.

Toll bridges have a nasty habit of turning from pleasant convenience
to existential threat quite rapidly (as in, the northern bridge to a
town when attacked from the south).

Posted by: cthulhu at April 01, 2016 01:37 AM (EzgxV)

I don't know how rapidly, given the statement in the article that many groups from far flung areas came to join in the battle. That's why I'm thinking they were banding together to repel foreign invaders (AKA, The Others).

Howya been Cooth, ltns (my fault, I haven't been regular on the old ONT since I took up with the lovely Mrs Hades).

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GGE, what has the "fallout" been over that issue, other than the devastating ban on NY state employee non-essential travel?
Weft and I were whining a bit up-thread about Whittle's words in the post, and my take focused on how the "betters" are doing nothing, or in fact actively helping most of the worst trends, especially this instant capitulation to *any* new demand, no matter how abhorrent, silly, or unreasonable.
Recall that tens of millions of your fellow former Americans live as captives and victims of idiocy far worse than Charlotte's. So any pushback - any - is sort of like Shcharansky in prison hearing about the USG bashing Moscow on human rights matters. Provides some hope.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 31, 2016 08:43 PM (QDnY+)

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Mmmm. One of the greatest inventions of the modern world is Kentucky bourbon. Great state Kentucky. They make horses there. And Corvettes. And did I mention the bourbon?

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GGE, nice to see you drop in! I've been here, but mostly lurking, given the current schedule insanity.
Opera performances on the next two nights, and then I will finally have the time to start my taxes. Yay.

Posted by: Piercello at March 31, 2016 08:44 PM (RXfvh)

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Years ago, my wife and I went to Lebowski Fest in Louisville. Well, really, I went to Lebowski Fest, and she tagged along. She had just come back from a trip to Prague. She joked to her friends that she'd returned from culture and was going to cult.
As part of the trip, we visited Col. Sander's grave. The wife is a huge fan of KFC. She still remembers "Corn and a cluck for a buck" from when she was a kid.
I am still milking the bonus points for taking her to the grave of her most favorite hero.

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 31, 2016 08:45 PM (1zS3A)

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GGE, what has the "fallout" been over that issue, other than the devastating ban on NY state employee non-essential travel?
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I regard it as win-win.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2016 08:45 PM (yddCj)

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298 Oh he saw it cooth. He commented on Jabber that guards were taking pictures of their defences and he fully expected that he might die just the day before if not the day shit went down.
Posted by: Zakn at April 01, 2016 01:29 AM (d2pTe)
I saw that in very close to realtime, despite not playing Eve, despite not being a diplo, despite not involved with Libya. There was something monstrous and wrong in the State Department when that went down -- and I can say this as Cthulhu....I know monstrous and wrong.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2016 08:45 PM (EzgxV)

327
"Viking type invaders." Kind of, sort of, except everybody's in the wrong place, and the Vikes we'd recognize first come down almost 2000 years after this happened. It's really early -- right around the same time the Greeks (Hellenes I mean, because Greeks we'd recognize were just starting to show up) went over to Troy. It's not surprising there's no "history book," since almost nobody was using written language then. We only know about the Troy story because it was chanted and sung for several hundred years, then somebody took notes.

There are DNA types from all to hell over in those graves. Nobody lived, or came from, where we think of them being in later times. Now, a bunch of archies will embarrass themselves by importing modern notions onto what they think they are seeing, same as they've always done, and there will then be a whole generation of revisionism, that will go too far the other way. "Science."

The real point of the story is that the German state history club is out of grant money, and that's when you publish the papers you've got so far. I want to find out more, but I'd just as soon the UN doesn't step in and Culture it all up.

Did you see the part about how the bridge was 500 years old before they had the fight over it? Hammurabi was alive when that bridge was built. Damn.

Posted by: [/i][/b]Stringer Davis at March 31, 2016 08:46 PM (xq1UY)

328
It just started thunder storming, here in Atlanta.
Fortunately, I have adequate supplies of Chardonney.

330GGE, what has the "fallout" been over that issue, other than the devastating ban on NY state employee non-essential travel?

Devastating? LOL!!! I don't think we will miss a bunch of Northeast Yankees round these parts. 'Course, we do have a place just for them. Cary. Containment Area for Relocated Yankees.

But in all seriousness, to answer your question...oh the outcry from the local outrage lefties...sweet sweet outrage...why, you know Gov. Pat McCrory has been threatened with the dire outcomes of being voted out of office no less than three times by my count, and that's just by monitoring the folks I know on the book of faces, and all he did was sign the bill.

Which brings me to the next point...if you want to make a statement vote for the executive branch (President, Governor, etc), but if you want to make a DIFFERENCE vote for the legislature. Pay attention to your Congresscritter and Senator folks, they make the rules.

The same thing is the only reason we know the story of Beowulf - because some early Christian monk thought it an interesting enough tale of heroism and virtue to record and adapt to Christianity from its earlier roots.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at March 31, 2016 08:51 PM (J+mig)

332
318 I suspect most battles are forgotten or not in history books.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 01, 2016 01:36 AM (iQIUe)
I suspect you are correct. I further suspect the pointy head academia nuts who postulated such a position need to have their brain housing groups re-aligned to the local reality.
From what I gather from mentions, there was a
600-year-old causeway/bridge there -- and, given the times, dollars'll
get you donuts that it was a toll bridge.
Toll bridges have a nasty habit of turning from pleasant convenience
to existential threat quite rapidly (as in, the northern bridge to a
town when attacked from the south).
Posted by: cthulhu at April 01, 2016 01:37 AM (EzgxV)
I don't know how rapidly, given the statement in the article that many groups from far flung areas came to join in the battle. That's why I'm thinking they were banding together to repel foreign invaders (AKA, The Others).
Howya been Cooth, ltns (my fault, I haven't been regular on the old ONT since I took up with the lovely Mrs Hades).
Posted by: GGE Hades of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 01, 2016 01:41 AM (vbvxt)
You have been seriously missed, but "if 'twere to be missed for company of fair lady, who'd first it be to voice regret?"

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2016 08:52 PM (EzgxV)

333
When I first came to America, I worked for a Greek guy in Asbury Park, NJ.
During the summer months, his hotel was overrun by Greeks from Canada, come south to enjoy some sun and avoid rickets.
When they head I was Irish, they were all happy to inform me that bronze-age Greeks exiled all their criminals to Ireland.
I get where Australians are coming from.

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 31, 2016 08:53 PM (1zS3A)

334
Some idiot in Sacramento (yes that doesn't narrow it down very much) said something about banning CA state employee travel to somewhere for a similar, idiotic "reason".
To which all 437 remaining functionally responsible citizen Californians responded, in their carefully concealed thoughts, "hmm, sounds good, WTF are our 'employees' doing traveling out of state on business anyway?".
I actually think the remaining American states should engage in similar grandstanding, with lots of mockery and sarcasm, by boycotting states that trample the constitution (NJ, NY, CA, IL - 2nd amendment), or have "sanctuary" cities.
It might not help, but it cannot hurt, to have the unhinged authoritarian alien freakshow that is half the country mocked and belittled, publicly.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 31, 2016 08:57 PM (QDnY+)

335
I'll buy the idea that Beowulf was composed as a chanted poem, but it didn't go all that long before being written down. Keep in mind, Some Guy was still writing in the same language and poesy when Chaucer was writing things we can read.

Generally though, yes it was rare for any thing to get written down, except bills of lading and trade regulations. Oh, and Cicero's "defense of orphan" briefs. I imagine that to your typical working musician or tale-teller, writing it down just spoiled it. Not unlike these times, in a way.

Haven't even looked at it, poor thing, I've been riding the Pony back and forth.

Opera performances on the next two nights, and then I will finally have the time to start my taxes. Yay.

Posted by: Piercello at April 01, 2016 01:44 AM (RXfvh)

I am really sorry I missed the chance to see your show, I think Mrs Hades and I would have really enjoyed it. I have to pay in but Mrs Hades got a refund so it all worked out. Crazy tax laws...takes an accountant to figure it out and even they get confused (Mrs Hades has an accounting degree).

I regard it as win-win.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 01, 2016 01:45 AM (yddCj)

I'll bet you are getting a lot more of it where you are.

"Viking type invaders." Kind of, sort of, except everybody's in the
wrong place, and the Vikes we'd recognize first come down almost 2000
years after this happened.

Which is why I said Viking type invaders rather than Vikings.

And as a side note, tis really irritating to have to put all these brackets and such in to avoid "The Barrel" when you're half tanked on good Kentucky bourbon.

Have I mentioned how good Kentucky bourbon is? Bluegrass state, Kentucky. Thinking of moving there one day.

341
I dont know how these idiots hit anything they shoot at.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf8X7bnHJKU
Take beer!

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at March 31, 2016 09:04 PM (iQIUe)

342
Cato I tried that, her grudge is against extended
family, who really tried to help my son, I thought maybe we could split
his ashes and she can do what she wants...(shrug) best idea I have come
up with. I guarantee she wont get her dads

Posted by: FCF at April 01, 2016 12:34 AM (kejii)

FCF... people are not rational when it comes to the death of loved ones. I would put plans off til your daughter can be with you when you carry out your son's wishes. Perhaps by then, she will be past some of the grief and all of the baby hormones. THEN you can talk to her about why you want to include extended family.

Please do not do anything in haste that will cause hard feelings with your remaining child... hurts caused after the death of a loved one fade exceedingly slowly if at all and I am very sure your son would not want that for you or her.

Posted by: redbanzai at March 31, 2016 09:08 PM (nUJM6)

343
Okay I'm back. We had dinner.
Don't mean to be hyperdramatic. But it's strange to me how my sister is behaving. She's supposedly speaking with the bro-in-law but only via text. When I ask when we're going home she treats me like one of the kids and asks why it matters to me so much. Then she has mood swings and hands me money to play some poker downstairs.
Tons more details I could share but typing on this phone is cumbersome. Oh and we are at our third hotel here in Laughlin. That by itself is a story.
Will keep you all posted as events progress. Hope my sister is not plotting anything but we're already two days overdue for home. Thanks for opportunity to vent here. I'll be in touch.

345
I can't imagine what they were fighting over in northern Germany 3200 years ago, and why the battle brought people from all over Europe.
There seems to have been a lot of travel and trade going on in prehistoric times. I recall there were some mummified bodies found in western China a few years ago that had Caucasian features and red hair. I don't remember the time frame, but I think they were at least a couple thousand years old.

Posted by: rickl at March 31, 2016 09:15 PM (sdi6R)

346
Until two weeks ago when they found some new old DNA, it was generally held that the gingers weren't even in Ireland yet when all this went down. Could have been stout. I sincerely doubt it was whisky.

In a way, the Trojans were repelling Viking invaders. Then somebody overran Greece from the north, and, dark age. Lot of viking going on in those days.

It was probably climate change. Fertility went up, excess population, and all of a sudden people were on the move.

Posted by: [/i][/b]Stringer Davis at March 31, 2016 09:17 PM (xq1UY)

347
344 Okay I'm back. We had dinner.
Don't mean to be hyperdramatic. But it's strange to me how my sister is behaving. She's supposedly speaking with the bro-in-law but only via text. When I ask when we're going home she treats me like one of the kids and asks why it matters to me so much. Then she has mood swings and hands me money to play some poker downstairs.
Tons more details I could share but typing on this phone is cumbersome. Oh and we are at our third hotel here in Laughlin. That by itself is a story.
Will keep you all posted as events progress. Hope my sister is not plotting anything but we're already two days overdue for home. Thanks for opportunity to vent here. I'll be in touch.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 01, 2016 02:10 AM (0nG6y)
Best way to ensure your sister isn't plotting something? Phone her.....from your home in California.. Buy a bus ticket -- $35 and 10 hours of weirdness, and you'll be outta that scene.

AR-15 lower, belt fed 12 gauge upper. Tracked the video down since I couldn't see the one in the story linked by Insty.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 31, 2016 09:19 PM (YJmuy)

349There seems to have been a lot of travel and trade going on in prehistoric times. I recall there were some mummified bodies found in western China a few years ago that had Caucasian features and red hair. I don't remember the time frame, but I think they were at least a couple thousand years old.
Posted by: rickl at April 01, 2016 02:15 AM (sdi6R)
The Tocharians, IIRC, who spoke an Indo-European language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tocharians

350
I've got a copy of Seamus Heaney's "Beowulf" somewhere in the stacks.
The way it's done, you have the original Old Low Norse (or whatever) on the left page, and the corresponding English on the right.
Once you grok how to pronounce the Old Low Norse (or whatever), it really is a chant-worthy tale. And all the better for the chanting.

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 31, 2016 09:24 PM (1zS3A)

351
351 I've got a copy of Seamus Heaney's "Beowulf" somewhere in the stacks.
The way it's done, you have the original Old Low Norse (or whatever) on the left page, and the corresponding English on the right.
Once you grok how to pronounce the Old Low Norse (or whatever), it really is a chant-worthy tale. And all the better for the chanting.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at April 01, 2016 02:24 AM (1zS3A)
A lot of my enjoyment of language was shaped by books of that style.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 31, 2016 09:28 PM (EzgxV)

352
@351 My Old English prof could chant quite a bit of it from memory. He said it was a language "designed to be shouted." Gave you chills. Tough old man.

He'd lost all his teeth jumping into Normandy the night before D-Day, and his govt teeth accentuated his square jaw just enough to give it the old Frisian thrust. Then he spent the rest of the war as a motor pool sergeant -- and he never learned to drive!

354
354 338 Tin is required to make bronze, which is a very big deal
Posted by: MAx at April 01, 2016 02:35 AM (LAliD)
Yes, but the tin was already found in Wales. What more could be found in Ireland? Try to keep up....

356
This site in Mecklenburg/Pomerania was found about 20 years ago, and everybody assumed the meandering river had just eroded up an ancient cemetery. Just five years ago, a guy's walking along, and there's a bone sticking out. A bone with an arrowhead in it. A...bronze...arrowhead. And that's when the fight started.

Posted by: [/i][/b]Stringer Davis at March 31, 2016 09:41 PM (xq1UY)

357
Ahh..the Bronze Age....Book of Joshua and what-have-you.
The ravens were always well fed.
Good times

358
I think the tin was coming from Devon. From around Lynmouth, if memory serves.
Not all the far from Porlock, which has a hill so steep, I had to reverse up it to get into a gear low enough to work. This was in the 1980's. I'm sure gearshifts have improved since then.
Porlock is where that guy who consumed mind-altering substances and almost completed "Xanadu" used to live.
God, I just love England. So much history around every corner.

364
God, I just love England. So much history around every corner.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at April 01, 2016 02:54 AM (1zS3A)
*****
There is history all over this Country. Have you not looked for it?

381
So I found out the carpenter who put the long screws into the pocket door opening was union, well it could happen to anyone. ( tee hee hee)
Bahrain Grand Prix starts today with Friday practice
Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2016 11:03 PM (fizMZ)

382
We typoe-correcters are not jerks. We are simply concerned for our fellow citizens' proper usage of the language.

384
381 Those polar explorers certainly knew how to dress.
Posted by: sinalco at April 01, 2016 04:02 AM (yODqO)
***
Look, old man, when you've had to gnaw on blubber to stay alive, when you've known what it is to run out of pemmican, you come to appreciate the moral value of gent's evening dress.

385
I don't mind the English professors.
I have a book on Shackleton, and I'm thinking of digging it out to at least review, but as I remember it a year or so before his failed expedition he sailed to Antarctica and reached the land mass because the bay was ice free. But on his expedition he was hundreds of miles away because of the ice.

388
It was an Abyssinian maid...
Posted by: The Honey-dew Fed Hat at April 01, 2016 04:31 AM (vBeA5)
***
No, you're thinking of Miss Eden, to whom none can compare...
I'm a fool, but even I know that east african women are beyond compare....

391
Listening to audio version of Ann Coulter's 'Adios America!' She can still be quite good when focused on a bigger project like a book. It's depressing but she makes a good case that the left was perfectly good with destroying the nation if it meant they got to hold power over the wreckage.

Also just watched the first episode of the new season of Archer. Having been completely drummed out of the freelance spy business, they're now making a go as Los Angeles private investigators. Maybe it's just me but I'm not feeling it anymore. Everything has gotten a bit too predictable in the characters' eccentricities and interactions. The last season ended rather in a way I found unsatisfying because Kreiger went nuts and created a disaster, yet nobody seemed to think this was a problem and they should all remain together.

Still have the last two episodes of Venture Bros. to watch. It has been so good up through #6 I'm almost afraid to watch them. Either they'll fail to find a good way to wrap up the arc or it will be really good and I'll go into withdrawals for lack of anything good to take its place.

393
Yippie-ki-yay, mofos!
Getting up in a few to pack for canoeing on Antietam Creek tomorrow with the Scout troop. We're visiting the battlefield today and they'll be thanking me for all the military history that I read as a kid before we leave the site.

394Our modest proposal, then, is that the University of Chicago and similarly well-endowed private institutions should share their assets with Chicago State, Northeastern Illinois and other struggling public schools...
My modest counterproposal is that they fire your two worthless asses and put you out on the street to pursue employment commensurate with your putative knowledge of living on an economy's margins.

The shorter version is always: You have money, I want it, so I'm going to make the government force you to share it.

This from a gender studies professor.

I have a family member who fundraised for a school mentioned the article. There's a group of their alumni who work on Wall Street, and when one of their school's graduates makes it big on Wall Street, they'll meet with him or her and tell them, "You've made it! You now have more money than you could ever spend. Why don't you give back our school like we did..."I'm guessing none of these people got degrees in gender studies.

Posted by: Lizzy [/i] at April 01, 2016 12:55 AM (NOIQH)

396
the article about the professors just is further proof that the colleges are overrun with communists. Defund them all.

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 01:08 AM (vvmPQ)

397
Guten Morgen Alle. Wie gehts?
Anything good to report?
I read about the Battle at the Bridge last Sunday IIRC. Someone posted a link in one of the threads.
So much for the "noble savage" who was unconcerned about territory or resources.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Just plain old Tim at April 01, 2016 01:12 AM (WVsWD)

398Reason #873 to Hate Obama:
#873 happened sometime back in 2010. I think you left a couple of digits out.

399
Vic, they're straight out of "Atlas Shrugged" - like the people who were given a business, destroy it with their incompetence and laziness, and then whine, "It's not fair - it's someone else's fault the business is ruined. I demand to be compensated!!

The expansion into useless areas (the ones that usually end in "studies") that provide students with useless degrees will never see many of their graduates donate to their school. Can't afford that on a barrista's salary.

Posted by: Lizzy [/i] at April 01, 2016 01:16 AM (NOIQH)

400The expansion into useless areas (the ones that usually end in "studies") that provide students with useless degrees will never see many of their graduates donate to their school. Can't afford that on a barrista's salary.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 01, 2016 06:16 AM (NOIQH)
Besides, rich leftists don't really like to five to general endowments. They prefer to target their university gifts to specifically leftist pursuits within the university.

404
404 Posted by: RWC - Team TTBTFW at April 01, 2016 06:34 AM (QcUSv)
Beware I live...
Run human
so it's hazy but Zombie James Brown went nuts in Virginia yesterday?

Posted by: sven10077 at April 01, 2016 01:44 AM (g8Hfr)

405
believing instead in the Almighty State.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 01, 2016 06:23 AM (J+mig)
A place here in Illinois just got fined $80k for not having a homosexual ceremony on their property.
By the Illinois Human Rights Commission. When you have gotten to the point that a gooberment needs to stick their noses in anyone's right to associate, you are done as a society.

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 01:56 AM (vvmPQ)

411
Seldom am I so right so quickly, so completely that it suns me...
so www.msn.com news of the VA shooting "gone"
It is no longer News.....
b/c one of Obama's sons pulled the trigger.
even "Evil RW FoxNews" is not letting us now BLM probably got another scalp.
Remember the Uber driver?
His face was attached to his tally sheet morning noon and night for a week or two.

Posted by: sven10077 at April 01, 2016 01:56 AM (g8Hfr)

412
So the new Tesla can get 200 miles a charge. You cant even drive from LA to SF on that. They say charging only takes minutes. How long is minutes? That they are vague tells me it is not good.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 01, 2016 01:57 AM (iQIUe)

413
Outrage as mom hires stripper to perform a lap dance for her EIGHT-YEAR-OLD son during his birthday party
http://goo.gl/VNCbXB

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 01, 2016 01:59 AM (iQIUe)

414
so CBS' local had the story on James Brown's story last night at 2230...
here's See BS national not using their affiliates' data...
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/greyhound-bus-station-shooting-in-richmond-virginia/

Posted by: sven10077 at April 01, 2016 01:59 AM (g8Hfr)

415
414 Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 01, 2016 06:59 AM (iQIUe)
Remember mainstreaming deviancy will never trickle down to how we treat the young.
//Subway Jared

Posted by: sven10077 at April 01, 2016 02:01 AM (g8Hfr)

416
So HUD has a "Federal Monitor" and he feels he can silence anyone whose opinions about HUD are wrong, or who talks about them in the wrong "tone".This is not America.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/zf2z7bm

Posted by: Lizzy [/i] at April 01, 2016 02:02 AM (NOIQH)

417
ABC News dropped the VA shooter story from its splash page entire.

Posted by: sven10077 at April 01, 2016 02:04 AM (g8Hfr)

418
>>Remember mainstreaming deviancy will never trickle down to how we treat the young.

Like this openly pro-pedophilia gal who just got fired by Nintendo?

http://preview.tinyurl.com/hf25vnw

Posted by: Lizzy [/i] at April 01, 2016 02:04 AM (NOIQH)

419
CNN's front page doesn't metion this "evil gun story" BUT they are in fact warning white people to not wear dreads...

Posted by: sven10077 at April 01, 2016 02:06 AM (g8Hfr)

420
How many law enforcement officers have been shot by #BLM people?Someone has to be tracking this, right?

424
Very little info on James Brown on the internet. You knew something was up the way there was no news for a long while. Since he was already in the system, they had to ID him as soon as they submitted his prints.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 01, 2016 02:09 AM (iQIUe)

425
Well since MU will be along in less than an hour I'll go ahead and post here.

Good Morning Morons. Today is Friday, April 01, 2016. On this day in 1970 left wing Republican President Richard Nixon signed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring the Surgeon General's warnings on tobacco products and banning cigarette advertising on television and radio in the United States, starting on January 1, 1971. This act passed by a Democrat Congress was, and still is, blatantly unconstitutional and like all Fascist laws passed in this time frame it has grown into far more mischief both in the tobacco area and branched out into other Fascist government control even to the point now where the federal government controls your child's lunch in local schools.

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:10 AM (vvmPQ)

426
Mexican journalist films two illegals who were likely drug smugglers climbing the 20 foot high border fence in seconds in front of a border patrol car. When they noticed she was filming them they climbed back. As I have said repeatedly, a border fence by itself is useless, especially when you have a traitorous SOB in office who has told the border patrol to leave them alone.

http://tinyurl.com/z5w5s23

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:10 AM (vvmPQ)

427
Turkish Prime Minister visits Obama and tries to woo him and also demands the extradition of Fethullah Gulen who is a moderate muzzie who fled to the US and routinely condemns muzzie extremism and terrorist attacks.

http://tinyurl.com/jsxxvhu

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:10 AM (vvmPQ)

428
And what about the Capitol shooter?No follow-up on that, huh?Just *poof* like it never happened.

Posted by: Lizzy [/i] at April 01, 2016 02:11 AM (NOIQH)

429
Meanwhile his thugs rough up reporters and DC police while he was in Washington.

http://tinyurl.com/ztnjr54

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:11 AM (vvmPQ)

430
Alabama Republicans in the State legislature are about to impeach the Republican governor over an alleged affair with an aide. You NEVER see Democrats doing anything like this.

http://tinyurl.com/jdwmgnw

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:11 AM (vvmPQ)

431
VA State Trooper shot and killed outside a Richmond Bus station. Two others wounded and the shooter was also killed. No description of the assailant or name has been given. That means the assailant is either black or a muzzie.

http://tinyurl.com/h5h4jp6

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:11 AM (vvmPQ)

432
More insane incompetence by our faithful federal government employees. The CIA conducted a training exercise with local police in Loudon County, VA at a local high school. They placed explosive material in the engine compartment for the exercise and promptly forgot about it and left in there for two days until it was discovered during routine maintenance on the bus. But don't worry, nobody will be fired for this so everything is OK.

http://tinyurl.com/z8t43kb

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:11 AM (vvmPQ)

433
425 Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 01, 2016 07:09 AM (iQIUe)
right...the only brave little voice was the CBS local...
who used contacts in the State Patrol in all likelihood to get said data before it was "narrative memory holed" and forgot to you know place political expediency over their duty.
The funny thing is go through the comment sections on these shootings...
Black Democrats will convince you the guy is white and an NRA member and then call you a Klansman when you are proven correct.

Posted by: sven10077 at April 01, 2016 02:11 AM (g8Hfr)

434
More companies join the Gaystapo in threatening to leave NC over a simple law which doesn't affect gay rights in NC at all.

http://tinyurl.com/zkbsa9t

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:12 AM (vvmPQ)

435
Brussels police say there are at least 50 ISIS supporters working at the airport there.

http://tinyurl.com/h2vovqq

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:12 AM (vvmPQ)

436
Report says 10,000 French millionaires have exited to country due to rising muzzie violence. I would say the extraordinary taxes put in place by the socialist government may have had something to do with that as well.

http://tinyurl.com/hmcm5ey

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:12 AM (vvmPQ)

437
Charlotte paper decries the first ever loss of revenue for Walmart blaming it on failure to adopt to internet competition. Of course it could have nothing to do with the obamconemy which has been mired in a depression since 2009.

http://tinyurl.com/zvhc7go

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:12 AM (vvmPQ)

438
Judicial Watch is now suing the FBI for records it has on Obama when he was in IL. Now the fun begins as Obama stonewalls until he is out of office.

http://tinyurl.com/zvunrza

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:12 AM (vvmPQ)

439
Scankles loses it when an eco-Nazi Greenpeace turd confronts her on donations from fossil fuel companies. She accuses commie Sanders of lying when she of course is the one lying.

http://tinyurl.com/zyrrmjb

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:13 AM (vvmPQ)

440
Trump makes another stupid statement. Says US soldiers are afraid to fight because of the Geneva Convention rules. He is passing up a prime and valid chance to hit Obama because our troops are actually being hampered by insane rules of engagement from the incompetent muzzie loving treasonous shit in the WH.

http://tinyurl.com/hqmvm43

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:13 AM (vvmPQ)

441
Bruce
Read up thread. He has a huge criminal record, and is well known to police in the Chicago area

Posted by: ThunderB at April 01, 2016 02:13 AM (zOTsN)

442
No charges to be filed at man who was accused of groping one of Sander's plants at a Trump rally. Indeed, if any charges were to be filed it should be against the ugly snowflake that confronted the Trump supporter.

http://tinyurl.com/jpulnof

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:13 AM (vvmPQ)

443
Dianne Finescrunt went to Google to find Scankles achievements and could not find any. Of course she must have tested this first so she knew it was coming and she was giving Scankles a torpedo shot. Really she does have a lot of accomplishments, most of which were felonies and the rest dismal failures.

http://tinyurl.com/z9lpvmv

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:13 AM (vvmPQ)

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:14 AM (vvmPQ)

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Here's what happens when you pay off muzzie terrorists to get hostages back. They go out and get 300 more.

http://tinyurl.com/zusoe74

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:14 AM (vvmPQ)

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Illegal alien mule finally sent to jail on his 24th arrest. And what was his sentence? Five years, which he will probably not serve much of even though federal parole has virtually been eliminated. Does anyone wonder why the illegal migration has exploded in the US? Look how long this man has been operating and turned lose. It goes back to far before obama's corrupt reign. Neither party wants to stop this flow.

http://tinyurl.com/gupwgzk

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:14 AM (vvmPQ)

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Racist organization NAACP and a few other SJWs want the State of VA to tear down a statue of Robert E. Lee in Lee State park in Charlottesville. I suspect the Democrat governor and Mayor of Charlottesville will bend over and kiss their ass.

http://tinyurl.com/gvgxvkb

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:14 AM (vvmPQ)

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So HUD has a "Federal Monitor" and he feels he can silence anyone whose opinions about HUD are wrong, or who talks about them in the wrong "tone".
This is not America.
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So glad we have Paul Ryan, he of the Republican-controlled House purse strings, to reign in this agency.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at April 01, 2016 02:14 AM (pVkEV)

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And speaking of SJW flakes a group of women want the tax on tampons exempted in OH and a refund be given; to them of course. I'm sure Kashit would agree.

http://tinyurl.com/z4p64w4

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:15 AM (vvmPQ)

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432 Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 07:11 AM (vvmPQ)
http://tinyurl.com/j24f948
Vic it is worse than that.
Shooter was James Brown III of Aurora Illinois...
He was black, he has a long rap sheet, and they are memory holing the story b/c it is not helpful to the Donk's November chances.

Posted by: sven10077 at April 01, 2016 02:15 AM (g8Hfr)

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And speaking of ignorant snowflake a CA Democrat has proposed a bill that would require people to register their ID when buying a disposable phone. I'm sure it would pass muster in CA or the NE but most rational people would hate it. And like all bills of this nature it would not work and would be totally useless.

http://tinyurl.com/zwoj4vt

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:15 AM (vvmPQ)

453
Pat Cadell joins others critics saying the RNCe is setting up to get their own choice nominated at the convention.

http://tinyurl.com/j2swghb

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:15 AM (vvmPQ)

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BB on Nathan Deal's sell-out to the Gaystapo and its supporters in the business world. One thing here I did not know, he grew up in a small town close to where I grew up.

http://tinyurl.com/zkor6xu

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:15 AM (vvmPQ)

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I had mentioned that that bill which the Gaystapo had worked so tirelessly to get rid of had been watered down to the point where it really didn't protect anybody before Deal vetoed it. Well this report at Heritage confirms that again.

http://tinyurl.com/jeybyfw

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:15 AM (vvmPQ)

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:16 AM (vvmPQ)

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SCOTUS rules in favor of the defendant in a fraud case in which the government had frozen all of her assets before she goes on trial. The ruling was based on her right to counsel but this is very close to an asset forfeiture case too. That would be the first time SCOTUS had ruled on one of these that was done before the individual had been convicted. BTW, I suspect this woman is guilty as heel anyway.

http://tinyurl.com/hkaya5u

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:16 AM (vvmPQ)

458Heritage rolling out more examples of that "non-existent" voter fraud.

http://tinyurl.com/jpu2qcb

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:16 AM (vvmPQ)

460
Pharaoh Obama's pen and phone set to eliminate the payday loan business through new regulations from that POS Democrat Dodd-Frank bill. So let it be written so let the people be screwed screamed the enraged communist potentate.

http://tinyurl.com/hk5ft8v

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:16 AM (vvmPQ)

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:17 AM (vvmPQ)

462
Recent surveys show that muzzies in Europe, far from assimilating, actually hate the West and our way of life. Yet politicians in the West, and especially our Idiotncheif, want to continue letting hundreds of thousands of them into our countries to kill us. And all of them unvetted despite what the liars in the Department of State say.

http://tinyurl.com/grpwmle

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:17 AM (vvmPQ)

Since Vic is posting the news, I'll chime in with the entertainment section.

One problem with Hollywood / theatre story collections (especially ones from the 1950s and '60s) is that, while the stories are good, many times names are left out, leaving you to guess who the raconteur is speaking of. So in this story, you'll have to be content that the subject is, in the words of the author, "a Broadway producer who has a genius for feuding with six critics, eight stars and eleven authors and directors at the same time."*

It seems he was overseeing a new musical during its Boston tryout, and decided one certain number was no good. "Take it out," he ordered. "It's awful."

The composer and lyricist disagreed. "We think it's the funniest number in the show," they protested, and refused to slice the piece.

No dice. The number was cut. But the writers wouldn't leave the producer alone, each day pestering him to restore it. Finally, in exasperation, the producer allowed them to leave the song in when the show moved to Philadelphia tryouts. "I'm only doing this to shut you two up," he snarled. "The audience won't laugh once."

But as it turned out, the audience did laugh. In fact, they were literally rolling in the aisles. In triumph, the writers rushed to the producer and demanded, "Do you hear the audience howling?"

The producer glared at the two for a moment, then snapped, "They don't mean it."

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More companies join the Gaystapo in threatening to leave NC over a simple law which doesn't affect gay rights in NC at all.
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What would be nice is that these states, who are being bullied about not just this, but everything SJW under the sun, would tell everyone complaining to pound sand. Unfortunately, it seems like 9 out of 10 times, they roll over with their tails between their legs. Same thing will happen with this eventually. Same thing will happen with taking down the Robert E Lee statue.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at April 01, 2016 02:20 AM (pVkEV)

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470 Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 07:23 AM (vvmPQ)
You had to dig HARD... WWRT I think had the story the Richmond CBS local?
Not slagging you or your skills.
In essence they are actively suppressing this story and its details.
Had he been "John Smith from Smalltown Illinois" they'd be screaming it from the rooftops.

Posted by: sven10077 at April 01, 2016 02:25 AM (g8Hfr)

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>>More companies join the Gaystapo in threatening to leave NC over a simple law which doesn't affect gay rights in NC at all.

This bathroom nonsense is so bad.

You do not have to be a crime expert to know that this will result in an increase in sexual assault and other pervy things like exhibitionism (dude strips in the womens locker room at the local YMCA in front of little girls) and voyeurism (filming, sneaking in and catching girls/women in the shower.

Really hate these people destroying civilized society and putting so many people at risk.

Remember since DC has exploded with out of State blue hell people mostly from the North in the suburbs and DC itself became 99.9% black VA has become a blue hell State itself. It is now run by Democrats and it would not surprise me a bit if they tear it down.

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:30 AM (vvmPQ)

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for example "Heavy.com" who usually has "5 things you need to know"
http://heavy.com/
Evidently doesn't think you need to know ANYTHING about the shooter.
The media has always lied, this whole "conspiracy to coordinate lies" shit is new.

Posted by: sven10077 at April 01, 2016 02:31 AM (g8Hfr)

479
VA should pass a law that says everyone who works in DC must either live in DC or move to MD. That would fix that problem.

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:31 AM (vvmPQ)

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474 You had to dig HARD... WWRT I think had the story the Richmond CBS local?

Not slagging you or your skills.

In essence they are actively suppressing this story and its details.

Had he been "John Smith from Smalltown Illinois" they'd be screaming it from the rooftops.

Posted by: sven10077 at April 01, 2016 07:25 AM (g8Hfr)

I looked at two local sources but could find nothing. I don't remember who they were.

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:32 AM (vvmPQ)

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You think Terry McAuliff cares about Virginia history?
All it takes is a squishy person in government.
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Nikki Haley sure didn't. And she's a lot more agreeable to my political senses than McAwful. I'd wager Robert E. Lee is coming down. It's just where we are as a country now.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at April 01, 2016 02:33 AM (pVkEV)

482
That's it for today folks. And I finally broke down and turned on the AC this morning. The temps were not so bad at 76F but the humidity had gone above 70% and it was oppressive in here. Posted by: Vic We Have No Party
Keep your eyes on that storm down in Georgia.. By the time it gets to my neck of the woods (Pa) it's still going to be powerful enough for trees to come down and power outages. Parts of Georgia are under tornado watch right now.

Posted by: mega machines at April 01, 2016 02:34 AM (fbovC)

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470 452 He was black, he has a long rap sheet, and they are
memory holing the story b/c it is not helpful to the Donk's November
chances.
Posted by: sven10077 at April 01, 2016 07:15 AM (g8Hfr)
I was 99% sure he was black. But searched other news accounts high and low and could find nothing that listed his name are any description. Even the local news stories had nothing.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 07:23 AM (vvmPQ)
WZ actually has a picture of him.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 01, 2016 02:34 AM (/D5Lf)

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@461
Well look for organized crime and drug cartels to swoop into the void.
Pay Day loans are not just something cooked up by the evil finance industry.
There is a market demand for these types of financial instruments and arrangements they and the need for them are not suddenly going to vanish simply because Pharo wave his scepter.
Economic illiterates, all of them.

Posted by: Kreplach at April 01, 2016 02:34 AM (YzgWc)

485
James Brown the 3rd, raised by his aunt, multiple stunts in prison, hated cops, from Aurora outside Chicago, previous charges in include multiple counts of attempted murder

Posted by: ThunderB at April 01, 2016 02:34 AM (zOTsN)

486
475 You do not have to be a crime expert to know that
this will result in an increase in sexual assault and other pervy things
like exhibitionism (dude strips in the womens locker room at the local
YMCA in front of little girls) and voyeurism (filming, sneaking in and
catching girls/women in the shower.

Really hate these people destroying civilized society and putting so many people at risk.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 01, 2016 07:26 AM (NOIQH)

The NC didn't say now laws against perverts going into women's bathrooms as the MFM and these Gaystapo assholes are saying. The law said that individual cities can't each make up their own law. At least that is what I got out of the initial reports on this law before the Gaystapo thugs started screaming.

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:34 AM (vvmPQ)

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481 Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 07:32 AM (vvmPQ)
It was "WTVR" sorry getting the gears going...
on stories like this I find the best thing to do is find the locals big 4 TV stations and then try to reverse engineer where the local story goes.
Don't feel bad you do a great job, of the Richmond big 4 3 have memory holed the story without giving the shooter's data including Fox.
In THIS case CBS was the one who told the truth.

Posted by: sven10077 at April 01, 2016 02:35 AM (g8Hfr)

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Tank of the day.
http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/gb/Infantry_Tank_Matilda_II.php
This was a monster tank for its time. Heavily armored and could survive multiple hits from tank and anti tank armament of the day. About the only thing capable of knocking it out from any distance was a Flak 88.
The Brits just didn't have enough of them in May 1940 to make a difference.
For WWII Buffs here is one engagement that these tanks participated in other than the North African Theater.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Arras_%281940%29

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Court records show James Brown III had been charged with murder, intent to kill, aggravated battery with a firearm, failure to obey police, resisting a corrections officer, aggravated battery of a pregnant woman, aggravated battery of an unborn child, numerous drug charges, intimidation, domestic battery, felony possession of a weapon, among many driving charges.
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Truly a son of TFG
What the fuck was he doing free?

I went through WZ and saw nothing so they must have put that up after I went through. Either that or I had not had enough coffee yet.

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:38 AM (vvmPQ)

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490 Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 01, 2016 07:36 AM (/D5Lf)
"disparate impact in sentencing comrade"
Guy walked on multiple felonies...
our system once envy of the world sucks.

Posted by: sven10077 at April 01, 2016 02:38 AM (g8Hfr)

493
They did a heavy.com on a Trump employee who a woman claims knocked her down. They mostly included info about other people and excluded the fact that the so called victim has a criminal record for being a scamster.

Posted by: Vic[/i] We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 02:40 AM (vvmPQ)

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We are a NoVA family - so far the school board in my county has kept to the regular Virginia Studies curriculum, at least in elementary/middle school. They certainly don't whitewash (no pun intended) the state's history, but at least they aren't being one sided about it.
I'll say that I'm a Virginian By UHaul and when I made my home here I promised myself that if I had kids they'd grow up with a sense of pride and love for their home state, just as I have for mine. If the state is going to be an asshole about Robert E Lee, then I'll pick up the slack at home and make sure my kids have the true picture. And this is from a guy who was born and raised in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains.

497
I went through WZ and saw nothing so they must have put that up after I went through. Either that or I had not had enough coffee yet.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 01, 2016 07:38 AM (vvmPQ)
Dammit Vic! Get your shit together!
*kidding of course.
I don't know when it was posted.
our system once envy of the world sucks.
Posted by: sven10077 at April 01, 2016 07:38 AM (g8Hfr)
They should offer classes on how to work the system 'cause I obviously need help.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 01, 2016 02:41 AM (/D5Lf)

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@450
Well according to our local Ryan shill, Ryan is completely powerless to do anything.
Hes simply being swept up in the currents he cannot control or stop.
Oh yeah, when does Ryan's #yearofideas begin?
The 1st qtr is nearly over and not so much as a sniff at an agenda from these assholes.
The GOP is a fraudulent party and needs to be destroyed, Paul Ryan doubly so.
The guy that's challenging him is really bright and articulate and gets it, he really gets it.
I would recommend everyone read his American Thinker article. It's spot on.
That is the battle that must be met and joined all of these CON-servative pukes must be driven from office.

Posted by: Kreplach at April 01, 2016 02:44 AM (YzgWc)

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494 Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 01, 2016 07:40 AM (iQIUe)
Right, I think it was Moo Moo yesterday claiming "man that facebook political lithmus test is awesome for the left we need to do such things"
Problem is we are frozen out since the SJWs run so much of the net news too, heavy and snopes are both leftoid mouthpieces ESPECIALLY in election cycles...
The right needs to organize.
//Said Sven here for years

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'He had a lot of anger about the police in the past,' she said. 'He pretty much thought he wanted to be infamous... in terms of having a showdown. He always praised those people who got into shootouts with police.'
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Wonder how bad it could have been without the calming words of the dems which have soothed tensions between AA's and law enforcement.

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When a movie puts all its jokes in a trailer, that is a bad sign SOP lately. FIFY

Posted by: rickb223[/s][/i][/b] at April 01, 2016 02:51 AM (FxM6p)

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James Brown the 3rd, raised by his aunt, multiple stunts in prison, hated cops, from Aurora outside Chicago, previous charges in include multiple counts of attempted murder
Posted by: ThunderB at April 01, 2016 07:34 AM (zOTsN)
Barry will be taking him to lunch any day now

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 01, 2016 02:51 AM (45oDG)

507
"I fear for da streets cracka after Obama is gone."
//Al "Slim Shady" sharpton
Posted by: sven10077 at April 01, 2016 07:47 AM (g8Hfr)
May you live in interesting times

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Court records show James Brown III had been charged with murder, intent to kill, aggravated battery with a firearm, failure to obey police, resisting a corrections officer, aggravated battery of a pregnant woman, aggravated battery of an unborn child, numerous drug charges, intimidation, domestic battery, felony possession of a weapon, among many driving charges.
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Truly a son of TFG
What the fuck was he doing free?
WTF was he doing still breathing?